My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.